現代社会論の新動向 : 高度近代の社会システムをめぐって

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New trends in modern social theory have emerged in Japan in recent years. What are the theoretical trends in understanding the dynamics of new social systems in Japan's high modern era? This theoretical essay, first, reconfirms the main theoretical types of modern societies and their historical changes in post-war Japan, exploring factors and conditions which have generated high modern era. Then, I qualitatively examine theories accounting for the recent increase of activities in the private sector and explain the reasons why I chose to use Anthony Giddens' "high modernity," instead of "post modernity" as my paradigm of choice. My theoretical analyses, finally, demonstrate the dynamics of new social systems as cooperation of and interpenetrations among the following four sectors:1) public sector, 2) industrial or business world, 3) public interest or non-profit organizations, and 4) citizens. This study suggests the importance of such dynamics as processes for generating a new civil society and thus a new public sphere.
2011-10-20